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We constrain two non-flat time-evolving dark energy cosmological models by using Hubble parameter data, Type Ia supernova apparent magnitude measurements, and baryonic acoustic oscillation peak length scale observations. The inclusion of…

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The cosmographic approach is adopted to determine the spatial curvature (i.e., $\Omega_K$) combining the latest released cosmic chronometers data (CC), the Pantheon sample of type Ia supernovae observations, and the baryon acoustic…

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We propose a model of the Universe based on Minkowski flat space-time metric. In this model the space-time does not evolve. Instead the matter evolves such that all the mass parameters increase with time. We construct a model based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-15 Pankaj Jain

We phenomenologically derive a cosmological model that includes both a cosmological constant term $\Lambda/3$ and a dissipative driving term $\beta (2 H^{2} + \dot{H})$ by applying both the first law of thermodynamics and an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Nobuyoshi Komatsu

It is the object of the present paper to unimodularise a disformal bimetric scalar-tensor theory, thereby defining what we call bimodular gravity. We impose one unimodular constraint per metric via multipliers $\lambda_{1,2}$ and show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 James Hallam , João Magueijo

Unimodular Gravity is an alternative to General Relativity (GR) which, however, is so closely related to the latter that one can wonder to what extent they are different. The different behavior of the cosmological constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay , Gerardo García-Moreno

Unimodular Gravity (UG) is a restricted version of General Relativity (GR) in which the determinant of the metric is a fixed function and the field equations are given by the trace-free part of the full Einstein equations. The background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-02 Abhishek Basak , Ophélia Fabre , S. Shankaranarayanan

In this study, we present an approach $ f(R, G) $ gravity incorporating power law in $ G $. To study the cosmic evolution of the universe given by the reconstruction of the Hubble parameter given by $ E(z) = \bigg(…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-30 Rita Rani , Shaily , G. K. Goswami , J. K. Singh

One of the standard approaches of incorporating the quantum gravity (QG) effects into the semiclassical analysis is to adopt the notion of a quantum-corrected spacetime arising from the QG model. This procedure assumes that the expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Kinjalk Lochan

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy (spatial inhomogeneity) data provide the tightest constraints on the Hubble constant, matter density, spatial curvature, and dark energy dynamics. Other data, sensitive to the evolution of only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chan-Gyung Park , Bharat Ratra

Inflation predicts that the Universe is spatially flat. The Planck 2018 measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy favour a spatially closed universe at more than 2$\sigma$ confidence level. We use model independent methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 Yingjie Yang , Yungui Gong

Unimodular gravity is an interesting approach to address the cosmological constant problem, since the vacuum energy density of quantum fields does not gravitate in this framework, and the cosmological constant appears as an integration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Yuri Bonder , Cristobal Corral

In this paper we use all available baryon acoustic oscillation, Hubble parameter, and quasar angular size data to constrain six dark energy cosmological models, both spatially flat and non-flat. Depending on the model and data combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Joseph Ryan , Yun Chen , Bharat Ratra

This contribution investigates modifications of General Relativity that allow or mimic energy nonconservation. We focus on Unimodular Gravity (UG), a theory that explicitly breaks diffeomorphism invariance, and show that it can lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Yuri Bonder , Johas D. Morales

In this paper, we use a newly compiled sample of ultra-compact structure in radio quasars and strong gravitational lensing systems with quasars acting as background sources to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Xiaolei Li , Hao Zheng , Yuting Liu , Wuzheng Guo , Chenfa Zheng

We show that a cosmological negative spatial curvature can account for both a recently identified phenomenological imprint of the global Hubble flow on galactic rotation curves and for the recently detected cosmic repulsion and cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip D. Mannheim

Unimodular gravity (UG) is considered, under many aspects, equivalent to General Relativity (GR), even if the theory is invariant under a more restricted diffeomorphic class of transformations. We discuss the conditions for the equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Júlio C. Fabris , Mahamadou Hamani Daouda , Hermano Velten

An effective theory of gravity in the infrared is proposed, which involves the determinant of the metric relative to the determinant of a prior metric taken to be that of Minkowski spacetime. This effective theory can be interpreted as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 F. R. Klinkhamer

The question of the averaging of inhomogeneous spacetimes in cosmology is important for the correct interpretation of cosmological data. In this paper we suggest a conceptually simpler approach to averaging in cosmology based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Coley , J. Brannlund , J. Latta

We apply the new dynamics of 3-space to cosmology by deriving a Hubble expansion solution. This dynamics involves two constants; G and alpha - the fine structure constant. This solution gives an excellent parameter-free fit to the recent…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-27 Reginald T Cahill